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If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can use a pipe | divider (⇧ Shift+\): [[target page|display text]] You can also link to a specific section of a page using a hash #: [[Target page#Target section|display text]] Here are some examples: [[link]] displays as link
A red link (like red link example) points to a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link (but please do not create this particular page). To create a new page: Create a link to it on some other page. Save that page. The weather [[in and for a few miles around]] London is a page that doesn't exist yet.
To link to a corresponding page in another language, use the form: [[language code: Foreign title]]. It is recommended interlanguage links be placed at the very end of the article. Interlanguage links are NOT visible within the formatted article, but instead appear as language links on the sidebar (to the left) under the menu section "languages".
Make sure that the links are directed to the correct articles: in this example, you should link goods, not good, which goes to a page on the philosophical concept. Many common dictionary words are ambiguous terms in Wikipedia and linking to them is often unhelpful to readers; "Good" is a surname and the name of albums, companies, etc., and the ...
Another way to get to a redirect page is to go to the target page, and click "What links here" (in the toolbox on the left of the page). This will show you all the backlinks to that page, including redirects. Clicking on a redirect in this list will take you to the redirect page, not the target.
To link to a Wikipedia article in a particular language inline (as opposed to the links in the sidebar), use [[:language code:Title]]. To link to a page on a different project in a particular language, expand the above syntax with a code for the project from the table below in § Prefix codes for linking to projects, as in [[:project:language ...
When using the WikEd source editor, selectable from Preferences > Gadgets > Editing, there is a "Wiki link" button (typically the first button on the bottom row). When editing, if some text is highlighted, clicking the Wiki link button will enclose it in double brackets, i.e., Wikilink it. If, however, some text is highlighted that includes one ...
The visual editor shows a button that allows to choose one of three offered modes to display a formula. There are three methods for displaying formulas in Wikipedia: raw HTML, HTML with math templates (abbreviated here as {}), and a subset of LaTeX implemented with the HTML markup < math ></ math > (referred to as LaTeX in this article